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"Designated Alerting Authorities at the Federal, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial levels may be authorized to send IPAWS alert and warning messages."a. True b. False

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Answer: True

Explanation: The IPAWS is the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Integrated Public Alert and Warning System used by Federal, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial authorities to issue important alerts and warnings to the public.

Some Designated Alerting Authorities include police departments, fire departments, county offices, sheriff departments and airports. The IPAWS makes use of such systems as the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) from an integrated system.

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